ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,630, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing handover in a next-generation communication system" was invented by Sangyeob Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method performed by a UE in a communication system includes: receiving, from a base station associated with NR, a command message for inter-RAT handover from the NR to a target RAT, wherein the command message include...